but Halper never joined the party and in his memoir revealed his horror at the cruelty he observed at a meeting of the John Reed Club. Later, in the 1940s, he was traumatized, when he learned that his close friend and agent, Maxim Leiber, was a Soviet operative, who had betrayed his trust and brought him to the attention of the FBI. A lifelong city person, Halper in his 60s moved to a small house in the country outside Pawling, New York, where he lived the rest of his life. He died on January 15, 1984, at age 79. He was survived by his wife Lorna Blaine Halper, a painter who died in 2012, and his son, Thomas. Works Novels Union Square (1933, 1990) Foundry (1934) On the Shore (1934) Chute (1937) Sons of the Fathers (1940) Little People (1942, 1976) Only an Inch from Glory (1943) DruhaÌ Generace (1948) Golden Watch (1953) Atlantic Avenue (1956) Fourth Horseman of Miami Beach (1966) Chicago Crime Book (1967) Plays Top Man My Aunt Daisy Anthology This is Chicago (1952) Memoirs Good-bye, Union Square: A Writer's Memoir of the Thirties (1970) Articles Dial Midland Prairie Schooner Menorah Journal Pagany American Mercury New Masses Harper's (articles) Atlantic Monthly (articles) New Yorker (articles) Yale Review (articles) Commentary (articles) References External links Photo 1: Albert Halper at Willa Cather's gravestone, Jaffrey Center, NH. 1957 Photo 2: Albert Halper at Willa Cather's gravestone, Jaffrey Center, NH. 1957 Encyclopædia Britannica 20th-century American novelists American male novelists 1904 births 1984 deaths Deaths from leukemia Proletarian literature 20th-century American male writers